Laya - Das Mädchen im Dschungel - Jaguar - Trailer

Year Published: 1956

Country of Origin: United States

Description: 16mm Film - Laya - Das Mädchen im Dschungel - Jaguar - Trailer - USA 1956 Regie: George Blair Buch: John Fenton Murray und Benedict Freedman Kamera: Bud Thackery Musik: Van Alexander Darsteller: Sabu, Chiquita Johnson, Barton MacLane, Jonathan Hale, Mike Connors, Jay Novello, Fortunio Bonanova, Nacho Galindo, Rodd Redwing, Pepe Hern, Raymond Rosas, Abdullah Abbas Steve Bailey (Barton MacLane) plant eine Expedition in den Dschungel, vorgeblich zur Jaguar-Jagd, in Wahrheit aber, um die reichlichen Ölvorkommen der Gegend zu plündern. Nachdem es dort aber nicht nur Öl gibt, sondern auch die äußerst gefährlichen Motilonen-Indianer, holt er sich Unterstützung von dem Dschungelforscher Dr. Powell (Jonathan Hale) und Juano (Sabu), der selbst ein Kind der Motilonen ist, als Kind aber von Dr. Powell aus dem Dschungel geholt wurde und seit 15 Jahren in dessen Obhut lebt. Juanos Freundin Laya (Chiquita Johnson) reist der Truppe nach, um Juano zurückzuholen. Doch dann machen die Motilonen die Boote der Expedition los und die Teilnehmer der Expedition sitzen in der trügerischen Sicherheit ihres Camps fest. Als sich mysteriöse Vorfälle häufen, gerät plötzlich Juano in Verdacht. In South America, Americans Steve Bailey and Marty Lang, who have been hired by a petroleum company, are planning an expedition into dangerous Motilone Indian country to look for oil. The company's head, Francisco Servente, warns them about the dangers of 'Jaguarmen,' murderous, jaguar-worshiping Motilone Indian priests identified by the jaguar skins they wear and the smell of the mind-altering drug, 'chica,' of which they partake. Servente advises the Americans to enlist the help of ethnologist Dr. Henry Powell, who has led many jungle expeditions, and suggests that they pretend they are hunting jaguar, rather than searching for oil, so as not to interest 'cutthroat' rivals. While conferring with Powell, Bailey and Lang meet his adopted son Juano, a Motilone whom the doctor rescued from the jungle fifteen years ago. Juano is offended when the Americans treat him as a curiosity and the middle-aged Bailey makes unwelcome advances toward Juano's girl friend Rita, who is also Powell's secretary. Although he remembers little of his jungle experience, Juano, already self-conscious about his 'savage' background, is troubled by their rudeness. Juano wants to accompany Powell on the expedition, but his father refuses, as it will interfere with his plans to begin college. However, when Juano learns that his admission has been postponed by the college due to lack of space, he bitterly assumes that the postponement was based on his race and vows to return to the jungle. While the riverboat is being loaded for the expedition, Juano and Powell witness the Americans, who are secretive about their equipment, mistreating the local workers hired as porters. When a porter gets too close to the equipment, Bailey assaults him, pushing him into the river where he is eaten by piranhas. Tupi, a longtime friend of Juano's hired to help with the expedition, confides that the Americans' equipment is for collecting oil, not jaguars, as the Powells have been told. Fifty miles from Motilone country, Powell instructs the men to build a stockade. That night, a group of Jaguarmen shoot a Motilone arrow at the stockade's gate. Hearing the Indians signal each other with bird sounds, Juano is surprised to find that he can understand them. Back in town, meanwhile, Rita receives a letter stating that the college now has an opening for Juano in the coming school term. She hires Garcia Solimos, who owns a motor boat, to take her to rendezvous with the expedition so that she can tell Juano the news. Upon learning of his acceptance by the university, Juano, disturbed by his familiarity with the Motilone calls, confides to Rita that he feels compelled to prove to himself that the jungle is not his home. Before Rita and Garcia can return to town, Motilones set both boats adrift and leave the sign of the claw mark on the stockade wall, thus causing fear among the porters. Juano, troubled, tells Powell that he somehow knows that the mark, called 'sukuruju,' means 'death.' Powell suggests that Juano may have been present at a tribal ritual years ago and retains the knowledge subconsciously, but Juano concludes that 'the jungle is still part of me.' During the night, Tupi asks Juano for his protection from the Jaguarmen, believing that a claw-shaped tattoo Juano received as a child connects him to them. After Juano single-handedly kills a cornered jaguar that threatens the group, its body is brought to camp. When its head and feet are later found mysteriously cut off, the men wonder if Juano was responsible, as no other Motilone entered the stockade. Later, as the expedition enters the oil-rich valley in which the Motilone nation resides, Powell, aware of the Americans' true goal, insists that they make friends with the hostile Indians...

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